Lab Crossover Event
Daniel Fuller
11/02/2020
R: The Swiss Army Knife of Science
- The R project for statistical computing is a free open source statistical programming language and project. Follow these steps to get started.
- The main advantages of R are the fact that R is freeware and that there is a lot of help available online.
Why use R?
- Strengths
- free and open source, supported by a strong user community
- highly extensible and flexible
- implementation of modern statistical methods
- assists with replication and extension of your work
- Weaknesses
- slow with very large data sets (>1GB)
- non-standard programming paradigms
Why use R?
- RStudio is the primary Integrated Develop Environment (IDE) for R
- We will be using RStudio for the tutorial
RStudio IDE
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